How depressing is the Chicago baseball scene going to be this season?Ozzie Guillen, who due to his career as an All-Star shortstop and World Series-winning manager, is always going to be associated with the Chicago White Sox.YET GUILLEN FINALLY makes t... »
1911 T205 - Lena BlackburneOn this day in 1968, Lena Blackburne died.Lena played with the Chicago White Sox in 1910, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1927 and 1929. What's so important about a die hard American League fan, whose batting average with the Sox (.209), i... »
I used to root for the New York Yankees as a kid (my feelings about the big ballclub in the Bronx are more neutral these days), and I can appreciate the aura that the team gives off.That winning attitude (which some people interpret as a sense of enti... »
Don Mueller, a two-time All-Star whose hit helped set up Bobby Thomson’s famed home run that won the 1951 NL pennant playoff, has died. He was 84. The funeral home handling the arrangements said Friday that Mueller died Wednesday in suburban St. Louis.... »
Seeing long-time Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle join the Miami Marlins along with several other ballplayers in recent days can’t help but remind me of the California Angels of three-plus decades ago.I’m speaking specifically of the Angels of th... »
There was a time not so long ago when Adam Dunn was a legitimate threat to use a baseball bat to make contact with a baseball. A simpler time, when Dunn was a National League player forced to run around uncomfortably in the infield or outfield with a g... »
On Thursday, the bad case of Illini indigestion was finally relieved when Ohio University’s John Groce was announced as the 17th men’s head coach in Illinois history during a press conference at Assembly Hall in Champaign. »
